Anyone home at the Windows 8 app store?

It is now ten weeks since Microsoft lauced the preview version of Windows 8 and in all of that time nothing has changed in the Windows 8 App Store.

Admittedly this is a preview version, so there's no urgency for a vibrant, pulsating App Store full of enticing software to download. And yes, the mechanism for automatically updating the store is not yet live.

And it may be a regional thing, restricted to New Zealand or perhaps Australia and New Zealand. It's possible users in the rest of the world are seeing updates.

It might make sense for developers to wait until the market officially opens before selling apps or distributing free ones.

On the other hand, there are plenty of people watching closely to see what’s happening in the run-up to the official Windows 8 launch later this month. It's under a lot of scrutiny. You'd think someone at Microsoft would worry about that.